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Musical Courier 1898-10-17: Vol 37 Iss 971, 1898
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1Hall on Saturday evening, October 29, with the following program:
3Overture, Freischütz ……………………………………… Weber
4Symphony No. 3, in E, Eroica ……………………….. Beethoven
5Serenade for Strings, D minor ……………………….. Volkmann
6Violoncello obligato, Leo Schulz.
7Capriccio Espagnol, op. 34 (first time) …………………….. Rimsky-Korsakoff
8Overture, Rienzi ………………………………………….. Wagner one of two readings
9Overture, Rienzi ……………………………………… Wagner one of two readings
11MR. LOEWENSTEIN'S CIRCULAR.
13Referring to these matters Carl Loewenstein has published the following circular letter:
15Mr. Carl Loewenstein, the originator of the Waldorf-Astoria subscription concerts, has completed his arrangements for the coming season. Mr. Loewenstein has secured the services of Emil Paur, who for five consecutive years was the conductor of the celebrated Boston Symphony Orchestra, for all the concerts to be given under his management.
17"The New York Orchestra" will be the name of the new orchestral organization which Mr. Loewenstein will offer to the public in his numerous concerts. The body of this orchestra is made up of the very best musicians available in America. Mr. Paur has taken particular care to select only from among the very best and his search for excellent musicians has not been confined to New York city alone. Several of the best-known artists of the Boston Symphony Orchestra have become members of the New York Orchestra, and not a few have come from other cities. The audience will discover many new faces on the platform.
19It has been Mr. Loewenstein's ambition to organize this orchestra on the same principles on which the permanent orchestras of Boston and Chicago are founded. Owing to frequent and regular rehearsals, it was necessary to engage the musicians on weekly salaries, instead of paying them separately for each concert and for each rehearsal, as it has been the custom heretofore in New York. To adopt this system means to risk more money, but it undoubtedly will bear fruit in an artistic way.
21Among the first violins are such sterling artists as Karger, Burck, Knecht, Boegner, &c. The second violins are led by Rottmeyer, the violas by Altschuler. The important position of solo 'cellist is filled by Leo Schulz, the celebrated virtuoso from Boston; at the same desk with him, Heberlein, an excellent 'cellist from Detroit, will be found. Nahan Franko is engaged as concertmaster.
23As to the wind instruments, the best players of the Philharmonic Orchestra have been selected, though the first trumpet will be played by Lafricain, formerly with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
25Mr. Loewenstein's program for the season includes, first of all, a series of fortnightly concerts at the Waldorf-Astoria, which are strictly subscription concerts, beginning Thursday, November 17, with eminent soloists. Madame Bloomfield Zeisler, the famous pianist, being the first soloist.
27There will be a series of five symphony concerts, preceded by public rehearsals, with an orchestra of 100 musicians, under the leadership of Emil Paur. The rehearsals will take place on November 18, December 9, January 6, February 17, March 10, and the five evening concerts will be given on November 19, December 10, January 7, February 18, March 11. For these concerts also most eminent artists will be engaged.
29The orchestra, furthermore, will start first-class popular Sunday evening concerts on November 6, at Carnegie Hall, and will continue them for twenty-two consecutive weeks. At least two soloists will appear in each of the concerts. The prices will range from $1 down to 25 cents.
31Nothing will be left undone to make these concerts perfect in every respect, and it is the desire of the management to make them similar to those given in the larger cities of Europe as an entertainment for the people at large, whether musically educated or not.
33The subscription for the symphony concerts will be opened at Carnegie Hall on Thursday, October 20. The subscription for the Waldorf-Astoria is now open at 2 and 4 West Thirty-third street and at Tyson's, Windsor and Manhattan hotels.
35Katharine Fisk.
37Mrs. Katharine Fisk, who has spent the greater part of the past four years singing in Great Britain, will fill the entire season of 1898-99 in America. These last years she has been very little heard here, and therefore the call for her services this season is unusually large and her manager, Mr. Wolfsohn, has already important dates booked for her both in oratorio and recital work.
39Her repertory for this season, besides the regular list of oratorios and a very large variety of songs and arias, offers two novelties which have already created a demand.
41interesting features, among them a pair of spectacles presented by H. R. H. Princess Charlotte to her music master in 1809.
43A Swedish inventor has just brought to this country a contrivance for writing down music played extemporaneously on any of the keyboard instruments and then reproducing it.
45Miss Ellen Beach Yaw has had an offer to go to Norway, Sweden, Russia and Germany for a tour in March and April of next year. Early in February she is engaged to appear in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Belfast and other important towns.
47Miss Florence Monteith is at Varese, fulfilling a special engagement to sing Elsa in twelve performances of "Lohengrin" at the Opera House. Varese is the autumn residence of all the Milanese gentlefolk, who are the principal supporters of La Scala, Milan. Signor Campanari is the conductor, and is assisted by the same orchestra which played under his baton at the Imperial Institute last season. The chorus is a picked one from La Scala. The opera has been put on in first-rate style, and every box—there are sixty-two—and stall is taken for the performances. Miss Monteith has had great success, and will conclude her engagement on October 6, returning immediately to England, although she had several offers of engagements in Italy this winter.
49F. V. ATWATER.
51BRITISH OFFICES OF THE MUSICAL COURIER.
5221 Princes Street, Cavendish Square.
53LONDON, W., October 7, 1888.
55MADAME MELBA announces a concert at the Albert Hall for November 7, prior to her departure for her American tour.
57Maurice Grau is expected in London next week in order to complete certain details for the opera season here next year, before his leaving for America.
59It is reported that Mascagni, who will conduct orchestral concerts at the International Exposition of 1900, in Paris, proposes to bring his band to London, for the purpose of giving some recitals either at St. James or Queen's halls.
61The Manchester Guardian says it is settled that Dr. Richter is to come here to take the position of conductor of the Hallé concerts, from the opening of the season of 1899. This I have not yet been able to confirm, but as the eminent conductor arrives in London next Wednesday I shall be able to give full details in my next letter.
63The Carl Rosa Opera Company, which is touring in the provinces under the direction of Dr. Osmond Carr, and with Hamish MacCunn and Harold Macars as conductors, terminate to-morrow evening their week's season of opera at the Grand Theatre, Islington. The operas given have been "Faust," "Pagliacci," "Tannhäuser," "Cavalleria," "Maritana" and "The Bohemian Girl."
65Herr Rosenthal plays at the Crystal Palace to-morrow afternoon.
67A brother of August Manns has won the prize of 500 marks offered to the best player on the flute. The competitors numbered 103.
69Mme. Blanche Marchesi announces recitals at St. James Hall on the afternoons of October 20 and 27, afterward visiting Edinburgh, Glasgow, Birmingham, Bradford, Manchester, Liverpool, &c. At the end of November she will fulfill some engagements in Germany, including a Gewandhaus concert at Leipsic, and after Christmas she sails for the United States.
71Miss Lillian Blauvelt, who is at present in Dresden, will go thence to Munich, where she will make her German début, after which she comes to London, expecting to arrive the 28th inst.
73Early next spring some special Monday evening performances, analogous to the Popular Concerts, will be given by the Joachim Quartet party. An exceptional number of chamber concerts and recitals have been arranged for in London between October and December.
75The Highbury Philharmonic Society, conducted by G. H. Betjeman, begins its twenty-first season on November 29, when Edward Elgar's new Leeds cantata, "Caractacus," will be given, with Mme. Medora Henson, Edward Lloyd, Charles Copland and Andrew Black as soloists. This society will perform at its second concert, on January 13, next year, another of the Leeds novelties, Mr. Cowen's "Ode to the Passions."
77The exhibition held this week at the Mansion House by the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers has many
79Miss Ida Simmons.
81This exceptionally gifted pianist, who has secured as her manager the indefatigable Victor Thrane, will be heard this season in New York and elsewhere under the most favorable conditions. Some important engagements will be announced soon. In this connection it should be mentioned that Miss Simmons' teacher in Berlin was the eminent Oscar Raif, and not Oscar Wright, as was erroneously printed in a recent issue of this paper.
83Katherine Ricker, Contralto.
85A young singer who made a distinct success in the recent Maine Music Festival at Bangor and Portland is Katherine Ricker, of Boston. Miss Ricker has a contralto voice of wide range, full and rich in quality. After her return from abroad she settled in Boston, where she has achieved much success in the many public appearances she has made. That she will be heard of prominently in the future as a concert and oratorio singer, goes without saying:
87Miss Ricker made her first appearance, and it was a triumph. Her voice has a wide range, full and rich, flexible and well handled. She is a notable addition to the list of Maine's artists.
89Madame Gadski, Miss Ricker and Mr. Williams won new laurels by their splendid singing.—Bangor Daily Whig and Courier.
91Miss Ricker's singing of "O rest in the Lord" displayed her deep and musical contralto at its best, and it won for her the enthusiastic approval not only of the audience, but of the musicians and singers.—Bangor News.
93Miss Katherine Ricker needs no introduction in her old home in Portland. She never appeared to better advantage than in the grand aria from Meyerbeer's "Prophet." Her stage presence was charming; she sang with great majesty and dignity the first part of the aria, and at the close displayed most brilliant execution. Her voice has broadened and improved greatly in the past year, good as it used to be. She received a decided ovation, and, when recalled, repeated the finale of the aria. Later Mrs. Palmer and Miss Ricker appeared in a duet from the same opera, and the two Portland girls must have felt that in this case "a prophet is not without honor in his own country." They sang the duet superbly and were recalled.—Portland Press.
95Miss Ricker proved herself worthy of singing in such company. In the rendition of her part she displayed a breadth of style and fervor that was delightfully satisfying. Her singing of the great aria "O rest in the Lord" was a beautiful bit of work, without a flaw.—Portland Argus.
97MORIZ
99Steinway Piano Used. one of two readings
101(no line here) one of two readings
102ROSENTHAL
104First Recitals: Carnegie Music Hall.
106Wednesday Evening, Oct. 26th. Saturday Afternoon, Oct. 29th. Tuesday Afternoon, Nov. 1st. one of two readings
107Wednesday Evening, Oct. 26th. Saturday Afternoon, Oct. 29th. Tuesday Afternoon, Nov. 1st. one of two readings
109UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF HENRY WOLFSOHN, 131 East 17th St., New York.
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